W98BSoD
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- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 2 hours ago:
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 6 hours ago:
What’s wrong with your “th”?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 hours ago:
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 hours ago:
- Comment on BASED? 1 day ago:
It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.
I want to go to there.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 day ago:
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 day ago:
Then you already know this:
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 day ago:
How about notepad. Or paint.
- Comment on Silver linings? 2 days ago:
Anally
- Comment on The Boot 3 days ago:
Thin blue line flag in support of police
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- Comment on Did you have one? 3 days ago:
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- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 3 days ago:
If you have Plex, Plexamp does a great job of streaming music outside the home and having a host of other features (playing similar songs / keeping the playing going / music by mood / etc).
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 3 days ago:
Carefully.
Seriously, I don’t know if any/many issues caused by downloading and playing a legitimate video file (MP4/MKV/AVI).
I feel like, if there are, those are being saved for a nation state level attack and not Fred downloading Shrek 2 questionably.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 3 days ago:
I give it another year before they stop the guide updates.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 3 days ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 4 days ago:
Or want a computer that can be powered via PoE.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 4 days ago:
They’ve gotten better. Unlike HP.
Know what HP stands for? Horrible Product.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 5 days ago:
- Comment on Follow the rules! 5 days ago:
- Comment on Follow the rules! 5 days ago:
It stands for, it stands for commitment. It stands for audacity. It stands for courage in the face of-
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 week ago:
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Sigh looks like I’m spinning up something else.
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nokia CEO hails Huawei ban by EU as results disappoint 1 week ago:
The big event, of course, was the European Union’s move to exclude Chinese vendors from 5G. Until now, its “5G toolbox” has been merely a recommendation, advising member states not to use so-called “high-risk vendors.” Evidently frustrated to see most countries have not heeded its advice, the European Commission (EC) now proposes to make its toolbox mandatory, penalizing governments and companies that disobey the rules. The move has been quickly welcomed by Nokia’s top executive. “I think, for Europe, this is a very good and important step, because building trusted networks is critical for sovereignty,” CEO Justin Hotard told reporters on a call earlier today.
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Original post
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
If I had to guess, at least in the past, Apple has typically listened to its engineers.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
They care that they’re running it.
Past that, they don’t care.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
They are leaving a big gap in the lineup though without a bigger SUV….
One of the bigger reasons I’ve been looking at an R1S from Rivian.
- Comment on Linux just works until it doesn't 1 week ago:
Libertarian police
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
